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The Bud and the Blossom [recto]

Paul Lacroix · 1831

Paul Lacroix: American, 1827 - 1869

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The Bud and the Blossom [recto]

1831

graphite on wove paper · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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graphite on wove paper
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image: 33.66 × 21.27 cm (13 1/4 × 8 3/8 in.) sheet: 40.96 × 27.94 cm (16 1/8 × 11 in.)
Collection no.
2015.19.1032.a
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Paul Lacroix. The Bud and the Blossom [recto]. Paul Lacroix; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Lacroix,_The_Bud_and_the_Blossom_(recto),_1831,_NGA_181030.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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The Bud and the Blossom [recto] — Paul Lacroix. 1831.

Medium: graphite on wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 33.66 × 21.27 cm (13 1/4 × 8 3/8 in.) sheet: 40.96 × 27.94 cm (16 1/8 × 11 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.1032.a. Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1965).

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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Paul Lacroix. The Bud and the Blossom [recto]. Paul Lacroix; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Lacroix,_The_Bud_and_the_Blossom_(recto),_1831,_NGA_181030.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.